Lobachevskiy
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Lobachevskiy
| Lat: 9.9°N, Long: 112.6°E, Diam: 84 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside) |
left: Clementine . right: LROC
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Four of Apollo 16's orbital Hasselblad photographs show dim reflected light on Lobachevskiy's shadowed inner slope, revealing a curious low-albedo feature (a dark streak) on the slope.
AS16-120-19274 (the first one of the four shows a little bit of dim reflected light on the shadowed inner slope).
AS16-120-19275 (the second one of the four is slightly overexposed, and the dark feature is discernible on the shadowed inner slope).
AS16-120-19276 (close up of the dark feature).
AS16-120-19277 (overexposed close up of the dark feature).
Research Danny Caes.
Maps
(LAC zone 65A4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Central peak composition: GNTA1 & GNTA2 (Tompkins & Pieters, 1999)
- TSI = 30, CPI = 20, FI = 20; MI =70 Smith and Hartnell, 1973
Nomenclature
- Nikolay Ivanovich Lobachevskiy (December 1, 1793 - Feb. 24, 1856) was a Russian mathematician. His main achievement is the development (independently from János Bolyai) of non-Euclidean geometry. Another of Lobachevskiy's achievements was developing a method for the approximation of the roots of algebraic equations. In addition to teaching mathematics and physics at Kazan University, he also taught astronomy.
- Discovered in Lunik 3 imaging of farside and named in Atlas of the Far Side of the Moon and approved by the IAU in 1961 (Whitaker, p 232).
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
APOLLO OVER THE MOON; A VIEW FROM ORBIT, Chapter 5: Craters (Part 2), Figure 110.
Testa, Bridget Mintz; A Swirl of Moondust, ASTRONOMY October 1994, pages 28 to 35 (pages 30 and 34 contain orbital Apollo-photographs of the swirl-fields near Lobachevskiy).
